How to make a busy website become slow? what parameter config should be modified with apache? (no mod-throttle or similiar mods)

MaxClients 1

in httpd.conf

That should do it. You won't get much slower than that.

Load apache with as many modules as possible.

I think by adding more modules not to make apache really slow, but it would take a lot of RAM to work.


let say, after changing "MaxClients = 1",
how about: MaxRequestsPerChild, MinSpareServers, MaxSpareServers and StartServers, and KeepAlive parameters? should I ignore these parameters if i set MaxClients=1?

Thanks